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Riyadh-Saudia(ANN)Riyadh should give up its illusions and adopt a more realistic approach toward US-Saudi relations, American scholars Perry Cammack and Richard Sokоlsky note, stressing that the partnership between the two states “is experiencing deep structural changes.”

The US-Saudi partnership is undergoing deep structural changes, according to Perry Cammack and Richard Sokolsky of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

“Shifting US regional and global priorities, fundamental changes in the global energy market, and America’s response to the convulsions sweeping the Middle East since 2011 have engendered mutual mistrust and exposed deep fault lines,” the US scholars write in their analysis for The National Interest.
Cammack and Sokolsky refer to Barack Obama’s concerns, voiced by the US President in his interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic. Obama called the Saudi regime “free riders” who could drag the United States into trouble in the region.

Obama’s remark has prompted resentment in Riyadh.

“No, Mr. Obama. We are not ‘free riders‘,” Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal wrote in his open letter to Obama published in the Arab News.

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